this is soooo good!!! what a great idea for a story. i like how your keeping d/g in character. i want to believe ginny is strong in canon but i agree she must be haunted by her first year. i like your discription and dialog. your inner workings of the pensive is logical and believeable. i'm also glad your not afraid to write long chapters. it's good to see your standerds have not slipped even though your writing a little different with this piece. please continue.

You know, I really like this fic. It's subtle, but it grows on you. The characterizations of Draco and Ginny are extremely good-- lately, it seems very hard to find an actual IC Draco, and you've done a great job. The challenge is always to make him into a person that Ginny could be with, and the way most authors do it is by making him hopelessly OOC. But the only way to do it, really, is to do what you've done here-- to show canon!Draco choosing to take a path that leads him away from complete darkness (where JKR seems determined to send him, btw!) Keep up the good work. :)